The Whatnot of TJ

Search in your current space, whether brick-and-mortar or digital. Post a picture (a link to a picture will be fine!) or description of something that is or represents:



( Explanations under here )And oh man, I hope this cut worked. If not, I'm SOOOO sorry, flist. ♥

Challenge #6 In your own space, share a favourite piece of original canon (a show, a specific TV episode, a storyline, a book or series, a scene from a movie, etc) and explain why you love it so much.

( Vid and Waxing under here )

Challenge Six

In your own space, make a list of things that you wish existed in fandom or elsewhere, or that you'd like someone to make for you.

Um... uh... this one always sneaks up on me and like any gift giving, once asked, I draw a blank. Let's see if I can come up with some things.

Wishlist:

♥ Icons! I had planned to beg someone to create a banner for the geeky craft exchange homemade2homemade that I run, but my co-mod redsnake05 was awesome and did it for us. ♥

BUT, I would LOVE some crafty--or geeky crafty--icons to use and offer to our participants.

♥ Podfic recs! I've been really getting into walking these days, and what helps a lot is listening to something and since I need to read more too, audio books and podfics would be ideal. So, tell me what is good. I have interests in many, many fandoms so don't worry about that when reccing. If it's not my fandom, I will still appreciate your information.

♥ Travel Advice! (Not fandom related per se, but, let's roll with it regardless). So, in a bit over a year from now, I'll be turning 50 and if the last 4 months are any indication, I will be in a much better place mentally and physically than I've been in probably my entire life. I want to celebrate. I want to travel. I'm torn between two very different, but both super enticing, choices (and probably more will present themselves).

First Option: I've always wanted to go to Italy, like ALWAYS, and I've started trying to learn the language through the Dualingo app, and I work for an Italian family. But, there are so many different options, and then I found a culinary tour and it just seems so perfect. But, then my BiL reminded me that I had agreed to take a huge family trip, a cruise around the Mediterranean and did I really want to do both. I mean, I will because like I said, many options and things to see that I'm sure I could just go again and again. But, he's also right, money and time are both tight and will remain so for a while, so maybe I don't want to restrict my travel to one part of the world until I've seen more.

Enter Second Option: Like I said, I've really gotten into taking care of myself and pushing myself, finding what "exercise" I like and what I don't. I like walking, I don't like running. I remember growing up I loved hiking--or more importantly, liked the idea of hiking. But, I lived between the Rockies and the Cascades so hiking was more mountain climbing than I could do with my body and asthma etc. So, I just sort of gave up the idea. Then I thought about the El Camino de Santiago and again, it seems perfect. I can definitely train for that--I think.

So, for my wishlist, I'd like opinions, advice, pros and cons and whatnot. Especially if you've done either of those or have trained for the El Camino.

And, I think that's about it. Thanks for reading. Now I'm out to find some wishes to fill myself. ♥ ♥

In your own space, post recs for at least three fanworks that you did not create.

'Tis the season to be humbled and honored that people wrote amazing things based on my wild rambling prompts and suggestions. I'm always awed when people can decipher my whatnot and make beautiful sense of it. These two were so very perfect:

First from Yuletide:

Balance Point (3352 words) by valderys
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Philadelphia Story (1940)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Macaulay Connor/C.K. Dexter Haven, Macaulay Connor/Tracy Lord, C.K. Dexter Haven/Tracy Lord
Characters: Macaulay Connor, C.K. Dexter Haven, Tracy Lord
Additional Tags: Negotiations, Slow Burn
Summary:

TRACY: I have the most wonderful little house in Unionville. It's up on a hill with a view that would knock you silly. I'm never there except in the hunting season, and not much then, and I'd be so happy to know that it was of some real use to someone...

Mike becomes a real author while Dexter and Red figure out if the pieces still fit - or if they ever did.

I love these characters so much and they are played by such amazingly iconic actors (Hepburn, Grant, Stewart) that I would be terrified to get it right. But this author does it so freakin' well. Reminds you the characters have substance with or without the actors saying their words, but still... you can see them there...

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Constancy Remus and Minerva Gen REMUS AND MINERVA GEN Shut up and take my money!!! I love them so much and have such a strong and strange headcanon for them that this story fit so amazingly...but it didn't read as Ridiculous-To-Anyone-Not-Me. Everyone will love this soft and beautiful relationship expertly rendered.

This last one wasn't technically a gift for me, but seriously, it's pretty much a gift for anyone who loves well told stories about characters rife with possibility that you wouldn't have thought or imagined if you had the world of time to create it. It's a gift for anyone who's love of books and libraries is only reviled by your love of language and the human condition. ♥

Bibliomancy Irma Pince was called as Librarian to fulfil the vision of the Hogwarts Library. She's spent her life turning that vision into reality with the complicated magic of books. People are no less complicated.

 The famous book meme.....
Gakked from madam_minnie


Although there are some on this list that I have read and would NEVER, EVER read again (yeah, I'm talking to you Poisonwood Bible!) I can't really say that I hated any of them. I have a hard time not finishing a book I've started and a really hard time not liking--or at least admiring--books that I finish. What's that called? Oh yeah, a Catch-22!

Okay, so I finished a short story and am feeling really good about my accomplishments today so I figured--it is now time to tackle the daunting task of putting myself out there in cyber space, once and for all. I have been putting this off for far too long, for much the same reasons that I don't keep a journal under my bed either...I don't want to be remembered for any of this drivel. Call it Twain-itis. (The man commented on the dump he took that morning and it was witty enough to make it into quote books for hundreds of years.) Who can live up to that kind of success? Who in there right mind even tries? Oh yeah, that would be me.

But then I read a book that really helped me out. I can't remember the title of it right now, but that's unimportant. It was a book of letters from famous people to their children. And with the exception of Twain (damn you Mark!) and surprisingly, George Bush Sr., they were all drivel. They were boring and chocked full of cliches and very few original ideas, they were common and everyday, and they gave me hope. If these people weren't afraid that their every sentence would be judged by the masses, than who am I to worry? I mean really, get over myself already!

So, here I am, with all my spelling and grammar mistakes, with all my cliches and unoriginality, unwittness...judge away!!